Keith Urban quotes

Keith Urban is an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist originally from New Zealand. Known for his smooth vocals and guitar skills, he has become a major figure in modern country music. He has won numerous awards and continues to influence the music industry worldwide. Here are 27 of his quotes:

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

Keith Urban

You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.

Keith Urban

Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!

Keith Urban

A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.

Keith Urban

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

Keith Urban

I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.

Keith Urban

I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!

Keith Urban

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

Keith Urban

I tend to write better when I'm not touring.

Keith Urban

It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.

Keith Urban

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

Keith Urban

I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.

Keith Urban

Sometimes I just cry at random stuff!

Keith Urban

Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.

Keith Urban

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

Keith Urban

There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.

Keith Urban

I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.

Keith Urban

I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.

Keith Urban

Country seems to be finding a bigger audience. Certainly an audience out of the general country scene is finding me.

Keith Urban

Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.

Keith Urban

I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.

Keith Urban

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

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